Trio Isimsiz Tickets

In its first Australian tour, Trio Isimsiz performs two giants of the piano trio repertoire from Schubert and Brahms alongside a striking new work from Francisco Coll.   

What’s in a name? Trio Isimsiz’s name comes from the Turkish for ‘without name’ or ‘anonymous’. In other words, for Trio Isimsiz, it is all about the music.

Pianist Erdem Mısırlıoğlu, violinist Pablo Hernán Benedí, and cellist Edvard Pogossian met at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2008. Since then, they have built their craft through performances at festivals from Aldeburgh to Trondheim and in masterclasses with András Schiff, Steven Isserlis, the Gould Piano Trio, and the Takács Quartet. They’ve toured China and Argentina and given recitals at prestigious venues like Tivoli Concert Hall, Snape Maltings, and the Marianischer Saal in Lucerne.

Trio Isimsiz will perform two giants of the piano trio repertoire. Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 1 is a chamber work built on a grand scale, yet it maintains an intimacy and lightness of being. Brahms’ Piano Trio is, according to cellist Edvard Pogossian, ‘the greatest piece of all time… filled with passion, love, nostalgia, and loneliness.’

Tucked between these masterpieces is the Australian premiere of the Piano Trio by Francisco Coll, a Spanish composer hailed as a voice of his generation. Described by The Strad as ‘ear-beguiling and starkly inventive‘, it was commissioned for Trio Isimsiz by the Borletti-Buitoni Trust and Britten Pears Arts for the Aldeburgh Festival.

‘A piano trio that already has that vital combination of unanimity of ensemble and musicianship, plus plenty of individual character and vitality’ - BBC Radio 3